MikeBobiney.com » blogging http://www.mikebobiney.com Tales from a Mac-toting software craftsman. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:01:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Blogging explained in plain english http://www.mikebobiney.com/2008/08/03/blogging-explained/ http://www.mikebobiney.com/2008/08/03/blogging-explained/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:50:55 +0000 Mike Bobiney http://www.mikebobiney.com/?p=67 To some extent, I’d like to think that this blog is meant for a wide range of visitors. So I’ve decided that in an effort to widen my audience, I’ll occasionally be posting material that is more suited to those without much technical knowledge and Internet savviness. With that said, here is a short 3 minute video from CommonCraft.com that breaks down the concept of blogging into simple, easy to understand terms.

]]> http://www.mikebobiney.com/2008/08/03/blogging-explained/feed/ 0 Did you know… Facts about blogging http://www.mikebobiney.com/2008/08/01/did-you-know-blogging-facts/ http://www.mikebobiney.com/2008/08/01/did-you-know-blogging-facts/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:00:26 +0000 Mike Bobiney http://www.mikebobiney.com/?p=62 In my endeavor to become the ultimate blogging guru I came across some facts about just how popular blogging has become.

  • There are Bloggers Choice Awards awards given out to best blogs in a given category.
  • There are over 175,000 new blogs every day.
  • Bloggers update their blogs regularly at a rate of over 1.6 million posts per day, or over 18 updates a second.
  • People actually get paid to write blog posts usually for a pre-determined rate of pay.
  • It can take Google as long as 4-6 weeks to fully index your blog.
  • Google has their own blog search engine.
  • 83% of corporate bloggers saw a traffic increase to their site.
  • 6 million Americans get their news and information from RSS aggregators.
  • Blog promotion is just as important as its content.

Sources
http://technorati.com/about/
http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/business-blogging/facts-and-figures.html
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/05/29/the-many-challenges-of-corporate-blogging/
http://thewrongadvices.com/2007/05/03/why-do-blogs-fail/

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If you’re interested in starting to customize your own WordPress blog then there is no better resource then the wordpress documentation codex on their website. You can find my “Chilled v1.0″ theme that this blog is currently using in the downloads section. And finally, no WordPress blog would be complete without a twitter plugin.

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